My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am.I will always be proud to be a Canadian.- Jim Carrey

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me becausethe danger is that you start thinking,'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing,and being self-critical.- Jim Carrey

I think I could go away tomorrow.I've already accomplished something.It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.- Jim Carrey

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffeeand look out at my beautiful garden,and I go, 'Remember how good this is.Because you can lose it.'- Jim Carrey

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.- Jim Carrey

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash.Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.- Jim Carrey

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.- Jim Carrey

That's the trouble with being me.At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is.I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like,'Yeah, big deal.I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'- Jim Carrey

Creative people don't behave very well generally.If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business,you're gonna be depressed real fast.I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter.She's my first priority.- Jim Carrey

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything.Period.If you ain't desperate at some point,you ain't interesting.- Jim Carrey

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman'is this incredible need to please people.I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I alsofeel this terrible guilt if I am unable to.And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.- Jim Carrey

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction.That was when I broke out of my shell at school,because I really didn't have any friends or anythinglike that and I just kind of was going along,and then finally I did this zany thing,and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.- Jim Carrey

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been.I've been very safe, very conservative with investments.I don't blow money.I don't have a ton of houses.I know things can go away.I've already had that experience.- Jim Carrey

I've tried everything.I've done therapy, I've done colonics.I went to a psychic who had me running around townbuying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura.Did the Prozac thing.- Jim Carrey

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle.No, I do.I do live in extremes, basically.I go back and forth.Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eatmore chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.- Jim Carrey

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen.Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society.And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.- Jim Carrey

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before.Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her likea girl has never been kissed.Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under herand catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.- Jim Carrey

My mother was a professional sick person;she took a lot of pain pills.There are many people like that.It's just how they are used to getting attention.I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholicswho'd leave her alone at Christmas time.- Jim Carrey

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid,I was really shy.Painfully shy.The turning point was freshman year,when I was the biggest geek alive.No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.- Jim Carrey

I need privacy.I would think that because what I do makes a lot ofpeople happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return.Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.- Jim Carrey

Some nights it was a melee, literally,where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing.People would be screaming at me to do my old act,and getting actually violent and angry at me.- Jim Carrey

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossibleto consider other things in my life.My marriage ended in divorce because of this,my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.- Jim Carrey

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along.It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes,but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.- Jim Carrey

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy.She used to scare me by saying that I was going tosee the devil if I kept looking in the mirror.That fascinated me even more, of course.- Jim Carrey

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit,I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance.Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened.If anything, it made me rebel against that thing whenpeople who get rich start playing it safe.- Jim Carrey

How do you want to be remembered?Live life full out - Begin today.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The jump is so frighteningbetween where I am,and where I want to be.Because of all I may become,I will close my eyes and leap.- Mary Anne Radmacher